NYT, WaPo Blast 9th Circ.'s 'Innocence Of Muslims' Rulings

Law360, New York (March 14, 2014, 12:38 PM EDT) -- The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspapers on Thursday jumped into the ongoing fight over a controversial court order that forced Google Inc. to remove an anti-Islam video from YouTube, warning the Ninth Circuit that it set a dangerous free-speech precedent for news organizations.

Along with the Los Angeles Times and other media organizations, the papers asked the full Ninth Circuit to reconsider two rulings in which a panel of judges refused to stay, pending en banc review, an extraordinary sealed order on...